, 1887-12-30
PAP WAS A USED UP MAN.
He was a Good Deal of a Fighter, but
He Met some Tha Were Better.

lfGeu NaTrull IN the CnicagO Tribune
One day we stopped by a little creek
near Fort Fetterman, Wyo., for dinner.
Another covered wagon, headed West,
was already campcd there, and a boy was
taking care of the horses, while a girl
about IA years old was busy frying some
bacon over a fire near the wagon. We
managed TO scrapo an acquaintance with
the girl, and asked her if she and her
brother were travelling alone.
"Oh, no. she replied; Pap and nam
are in the wagon, Pap's laid up and
MAINS doctorin' him."
Hurt in an accident?'
Yes, all bunged up. Other teller was
a sight quicker'n pap lowed he was.
Lor', butt he did make some lively mo.
%tionsl''
"What was the trouble?"
"Oh, jes a fight. Say. | want to know
if the men keep gittin' wus the furder
West you git?''
well, it's hard TO say. Do they seem
to?"
That's about it. When We lived back
n Pennsylvania pap lowed he could lick
any man in Mitfln county, an he used to
do it, too, lection days, an Fourth of
Julys, an camp meetin's. Three months
ago We pulled out for the West, an says
pap: L shall leave a line O men on
crutches from Lewiston, Pa, to Boze-
man, Mont. [ shall tie together the ALE
CLEANERS and the Rockies by n line O. Grip
pies! | shall unite the East an the West
with spawned an ousted up tightcrsl |
shall shut up the optics and flatten outthe
smellcrs Of these Western galoots an
learn EN- that the bad men don't all
roost west o the Miss 'sippi. Pap said
he was p!zcn on Western blOwllards, an
they wanted to sing low when he had his
boots on
well, was he as successful as he ex-
pected to be?'
Not by a good bit. He pounded a
man all to pieces near Pittspurg an licked
two more crossin' Ohio. They seemed
to git tougher in Indiana, but pap whaled
a livery stable man at Decatur and chased
a TIppecanoe county farmer n mile N a
half. When VIC struck in Illinoys they
'peared to git still wuss an pap only
kinder tired out three or four Of EN- an
didn't lick en- reg'lar. Then we crossed
the Miss sippi at Burlington, an a man
that was loadin' lumber dowo by the
river kinder tired pap out. Then at OF
runway a mar hat run a s'loon pretty
near licked pap regular, and at Osceola
he'd "a got pounded if he hadn't a.run.
Still he didn't git hurt much till we struck
Newbraska.
They got still worse, did they?'
THAT amt no name for it. At Ere
mont one of the county commissioners
came down where we was camped au'
put it all over pap in about ten minutes,
an at long Pine pap shook his fist at the
conductor OF a passenger train that was
goin' past an the conductor stopped his
train a come over an whaled pap till
he squealed. At Valentine the principal
OF the schools chased him out O the
school-yard when we tried to camp there,
an at Chadron he picked on the mayor
a little when they was tryin' to trade
horses, an the mayor up'n sOckcd it to
him 'thout pullin' his coat or sayin' a
word. Still pap wasn't laid up till we
struck Wyoming. Back here at Lusk pap
got talkin' with Il little Teller bout rCli.
gion. Pap's a Prcspetcrian an the little
teller said he wasn't nothing, but he
leaned towards the 'PIscopals and never
took much stock in P~resbyterians. Then
pap jumped up a couple O. times an told
the little teller to look out cause he was a
comm. An then pap went for him with
HlS uChh uOhu an BOSu' YOU OIlcT seen
the motions that little teller made Pap
was licked fore he got his second wind,
but somehow the cuss was 50 little he KEEP
a fightin' him in place o runnin' like he
ortcr, and the conscience was me imam
hal to hist him into the wag'n an fix up
some plasters for him an rub him with
boss lin'ment. | don't know what goin'
TO become o pap if he keeps a pitchin'
into EN-. 1t pears that the furder west
we git the wuss they git an it looks 'sif
fore we git up to Bozeman that we'd have
to bury pap. Pap lows if he could strike a
Quaker settlement he would be all right.
but there don't seem to be none out this
way. To a man up a tree it looks 'sifpaD
way n busted community r.
DAMAGED Gonds Ifnr Sale